Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-04
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Governor Church h as recently in
vested 5000 in Huron real estate.
Cochran again to the front 12 lbs
granulated sugar for $l.00, the cheapest
house in the Black Hills.
Stones barber shop is headquarters
for chess, where visiting experts rarely |
fail in being mated.
Sioux City Gold Dust -four, the best
-four in Custer county, $3.50 per 100 lbs
at Cochran's.
The new drug store Of +. j. V. Rut-
kowgki, on Custer avenue, was opened
for business on Wednesday.
Sioux City Standard -four, $50 per
100 lbs. All other goods at correspond
ing low prices at Cochran's.
The actual cash dividends paid by the
Homestake mine of the Black Hills now
aggregate the enormous sum of $685.
$50, or $44.30 per share.
Assaying done at Booth Il Webster's.
Gold, $l.00; silver, Sl.0O; gold and sill
yer, $l.50; copper 81 80; tin SI.OO; nickel
$500.
Paul Kleemann has placed a big
lettered sign high up on the east end Of
r. his hotel which can be read on the run
q mile off.
The weather continues favorable to
the growing crops in every part OF the
territory, and the outlook for an abundant
tin crop in this locality is especially
lurid.
John d. Hale, a foot hills stock man,
whose range lies north of Rapid, reports
a loss Of only nine head of horses dur
ing the past winter, out Of q herd num-
boring over three hundred.
The improvement in the Hot Springs
Star since Mr.. Stanley took charge is
most apparent, and will doubtless have a
marked tendency In %augmenting the
circulation Of that very creditable paper.
The National Children's Day will be
observed at the Congregational Church,
June 10Th. A choice programme will
be presented by the Sunday School.
Everybody is cordially invited to attend.
Placer mining on French creek is
being continued with good success, and
claims are being rapidly taken. At this
time the ground has been located to a
point four OF five miles above this
place.
A. j. Blakely, special agent of the
general land Office recently arrived in
Deadwood where he will have his head
quarters. Timber depredators, ard
violators of the land laws generally will
doubtless receive early attention from
Mr.. b.
Messrs. Wood & Co. have completed
the erection Of their new hay scales in
front Of their feed mill on Custe. aven-
nc, which by repeated tests are shown
TO weigh correctly and accurately any
quantity from a two-pound package up
10 five tons.
Oil City is the name of a new town
situated near the oil camps in Crook
county, Wyoming, thirty miles west of
~Sundance. Tom Hooper, our quondam
friend and fellow townsman in pioneer
days, now of Snndance, is named among
the founders. May the new town strike
oil, is the ardent wish of the CHRONICLE.
The Rapid Journal Of the 3lst ult.
notes the expected arrival in the Hills
of b. G. Bloss, of the New York Mutual
Life Insurance Company, and Baron
Cazaux, of Holland, who, it is claimed,
are On their way to this section with a
view of making investment. These
gentlemen are said to be connected with
the Dakota Water Power company.
The attention Of the residents Of this
city is called to a notice Of the Board
Of Trustees appearing in this issue of
the CHRONICLE, in which the residents
are reminded Of a certain ordinance
providing for the cleaning Of public
alleys. 1t is to be devoutly hoped that
this notice may be effective, and that all
rubbish and filth may be removed be-
fore the close ofthe coming week.
Henry Hopkins, a farmer near Rapid,
wal found dead in his barn last Satur-
day. A coroner's jury was %empanelled,
and an investigation determined the
fact of his neck being broken, but all
efforts to discover the cause, ND to the
latest advices had proved futile. De-
ceased was az old man Of seventy years,
and a member of Harvey post, q. A. r,
of Rapid, by whom he was buried on
memorial day.
The New York Engineering and Min
ing Journal OF May 2Sth notes the or
ganization Of the Harvey Peak Tin
Company. The proposed capital is
E~2,0O0,OO0, divided into $4,000 preference
shares, and $4,000 ordinary shares, all
EGO each. The object is to purchase
and work mines in the Black Hills.
Custer City and the Black Hills may
very reasonably feel elated over the